"Beardless #Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus [Dionysos] on Ismarian hills. He trusted him with a vine hanging from the leaves of an elm; it is now named for the boy. The reckless youth fell picking gaudy grapes on a branch. Liber [#Dionysos] lifted the lost boy to the stars." #Ovid, Fasti 3.407
"‘Be gracious to me, shining deity,’ I said, ‘and let the rocks of Latmos rise in thy mind! Endymion will not have you austere of heart. Bend, O I pray, your face to aid my secret loves. You, a goddess, did glide from the skies and seek a mortal love.'" #Ovid, Heroides 18.59
🏛️ #Endymion sarcophagus, detail of #Selene, Endymion, #Eros, early 3rd century CE, Roman Marble
"Three nights remained before Luna's [#Selene's] bright horns would meet and form her orb; then when she shone in fullest radiance and with form complete gazed down upon the sleeping lands below." #Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.179
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"Fishes, heaven's horses. They say that you and your brother (for your stars gleam together) ferried two gods on your backs. Once Dione [Aphrodite], in flight from terrible Typhon, reached the Euphrates with tiny Cupidos in tow." #Ovid, Fasti 2.458
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"That gift of love consumed her. From her womb her baby, still not fully formed, was snatched, and sewn (could one believe the tale) inside his father's thigh, and so completed there his mother's time." #Ovid, Metamorphoses 3
🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos, detail, Roman sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos, 190 CE, Walters Art Museum
📸 Lucas Livingston